ISLAMABAD: On Friday, the Lahore High Court (LHC) upheld the Pakistan Medical Commission’s (PMC) decision to solely consider a student’s marks in elective subjects when determining their admission status to medical and dental colleges in 2021.
The court dismissed the petition that was brought forth by both the new candidates and the FSC 2020 students. The petitioners had argued that the PMC judgment was unfair to candidates whose FSC was finished in 2020 or after 2021.
“The policy decision of PMC to the extent represented by the Public Notice as such fully stands to reason and suffers from no inherent or illegal discriminatory feature being based on tenable classification and, therefore, warrants no interference in extraordinary Constitutional and discretionary jurisdiction of this Court,” the LHC ruled.
According to the PMC public notice, candidates who passed their FSC pre-medical or equivalent test in 2021 and sought admission to a medical or dental institution for the 2022–2023 session had been advised that only their marks and percentages in elective subjects would be taken into account for merit.
According to PMC regulations, the admissions process for medical education is based on a set weightage formula, with 50% of the weightage going to the MDCAT, 40% to the FSC (pre-medical)/HSSC/equivalent, and 10% to the SSC/Matriculation/Equivalent.
